Ukrainian Navy intelligence unit frees Ukrainian armed forces veteran and national guardsman from occupied Luhansk Oblast

A 29-year-old veteran of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and a 34-year-old serviceman of the National Guard, who had been held captive in the temporarily occupied part of Luhansk Oblast, have been brought back to Ukraine's government-controlled territory.

Source: Oleksii Kharchenko, Head of Luhansk Oblast Military Administration

Details: The special operation was carried out by fighters from the Ukrainian Navy's special reconnaissance unit Angels, coordinated by Military Ombudswoman Olha Reshetylova.

Kharchenko said the national guardsman had been missing for more than three years but was in fact being held captive and forced to work for one of the local collaborators.

The mother of the veteran, who also serves in the Ukraine's Armed Forces, contacted the ombudswoman after learning that her son had been tortured and was hiding in the occupied territory. During the investigation, the location of the national guardsman was also identified.

Two parallel operations were conducted to extract the servicemen from different locations without disclosing the details of the plan to them. Both have now been freed and are safe in Ukraine-controlled territory.

Artem Dyblenko, a representative of the Ukrainian Navy's special reconnaissance unit Angels, shared details of the operation.

Quote: "We located these guys within a short time and devised an extraction plan. They had to be 'stolen' from there quickly, as their lives were in danger."

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